Proofreading regexps

gistfile1.txt

% Search for *} and replace with \section{}}
% Tag up chapters with \chapter{}, and \chapter*{} if you want to skip the numbering.
% Go through error notifications and resolve overflows with a forced hyphen or otherwise
% Spellcheck


%  Commas and full stops outside quotation marks
%  ’[.,]
%  e.g. ‘It doesn’t sound like it to me’, she said.

% quotation marks the wrong way around 
% (?!^([^’\r\n]++|’[^’\r\n]*’)*$)^.+
% e.g. ‘It doesn’t sound like it to me‘, she said.
% and for double quotes
% (?!^([^“”\r\n]++|“[^“”\r\n]*”)*$)^.+

% A instead of An 
%  a [aeiou][^unique][^unicorn]
% e.g. a umbrella

% missing capital after full stop
% [^.][^A-Z]\. [a-z]
% e.g. ...she said. and then I realised

% missing brackets 
% \([^)]*$
% e.g. I said (and this was the funny thing "Why not?"

% Duplicated word
% \b(\w+)\b \b\1\b
% e.g. she was along along.

% Unbalanced Quotes
% ^(?!(?:‘(?:[a-z][‘’][a-z]|[^‘’\r\n])*+’|(?:[a-z][‘’][a-z]|[^‘’\r\n]))*$).*

% Double space
% \s\s
% ‘It doesn’t sound like it to me’  she said.

% proper dashes , non regex search
%  - 
%to
%  —

% balanced dashes
%  - [^-]+ –
% e.g. We both knew - deep down in our waters — that

% balanced en dashes (include the leading space)
%  — [^–]+ -
% e.g. We both knew — deep down in our waters - that

% balanced em dashes
%  — [^—]+ -
% e.g. We both knew — deep down in our waters - that

% balanced em to en dashes
%  — [^—]+ –
% e.g. We both knew — deep down in our waters — that

% missing space after comma
% [,][^'"’” ]

% space before comma
% \s[,]

% no space after comma, except }, ’ and space
% [.][^}’ ]

% reversed apostrophe
% \b‘
% he‘d

%em dash with reversed apostrophe
% —‘

%dash dash with reversed apostrophe
%-‘

% dash with spaces
% -

% dash with apostrophe
%-’

% dash with curly
%-}